“Cam didn’t nap today and was having a major meltdown. (Cam is the older child, quite adorable even if she does have a mischievous twinkle to her eye, I can attest! 🙂 )

I didn’t have any Peace & Calming OR Lavender…..so I dug out some old J&J lavender wash from like 3 years ago…….

It smelled AWFUL!!! Hurry up Friday so I can order more Peace & Calming!!!!”

*I asked her why she was waiting for Friday and she said, “PAYDAY”…. ahhhh yes, there IS that…. Knowing her to be VERY “crunchy” I then asked why she even HAD any J&J considering the toxicity. She said she thought she had thrown it away and was looking for her Lavender castile soap but found that and……

“I was DESPERATE, so I thought I’d try it…….NOT!”

* told her she needed to GET RID of that “nasty-stuff”…. and she said….

“I already dumped the rest of the J&J and then I remembered….

hey, I STILL HAVE MY LAVENDER SAMPLES!!!!”

*SCORE!!! ….nice that the Premium enrollment kit also has some samples…. which you can either use or share.

Maybe they should make that kit in 15ml bottles, eh?

Thanks for sharing your story, Mikala!!

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS.”

Are you a young mother, busy with the duties of caring for your family? Or are you a mother of young children that need your constant attention every waking second of every day? Do your feet hit the floor running and by the end of the day you fall into bed and as soon as your head hits the pillow you’re out like a light? Is free time those few minutes on the toilet with little voices calling, “Mom, Mom, Mom…where ARE you???” ….while little fingers (and paws) pry under the doorway….

Or maybe you cannot even find THOSE few minutes to yourself. Are you a stay-at-home mother or a working mother either one….neither is free from the constant caring for that child or tribe of children that came forth from your body, that extracted your heart from your body in an instant, that instant they were born and made everything you live for painfully outside of your ability to control?

It isn’t really exclusive to mothers, fathers do it too….. Do you spend myriads of time running a taxi-service to get your offspring to music lessons and sporting events and speech therapy, the occasional doctor and dentist appointments and don’t EVEN think about the pets!! Play dates, girl/boy scouts, church events…. Then they get a little bit older and you have to juggle their friends too! Then a little bit MORE time passes and they juggle jobs and driving and who gets the car? dating and band practice…college visits……a wedding…. and BAM they’re gone! Not kidding! They’re gone in a millisecond…..

Do you always put those children first? Of course you do, we all do. We have to, they need that. As infants they depend on us for every single thing pertaining to life. As they mature, they need training, and direction along with love and care.

But first doesn’t mean ONLY. You teach your children how to care for themselves by example by how you care for yourself. Do you eat healthy meals or just finish whatever they left on their plates? Do you even remember to eat at ALL? Do you get enough water every day? Are you exercising? Do you get fresh air? Do you take time to nurture your spirit and take care of your emotions day-to-day? Do you keep your relationships CURRENT (don’t let the sun go down on your anger)? Do you say please, thank-you, I was wrong, and I’m sorry?

You don’t? So then, you don’t take care of YOU? Well….. STOP IT! Just STOP it! Too busy? You’re too busy NOT to take care of you….. just STOP IT! Take it from Dr. Switzer…. cause, he’s a doctor…. watch how he handles this lady with her problem…. his advice goes for “NOT TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF”!!!!

When you forget about taking care of yourself…..JUST STOP IT….. and DO it! Take care of YOU! You are the only mother (or father) that child/those children have…they need you, both to teach them…and to be there for them.

Take time to meet your own needs as you care for your families!!

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS.”

Following is a story from my facebook friend, Suzanne, and the loss of her son.

Here’s Thomas’s (MY SON) story:

“I was born HEALTHY September 28, 2012. I was given the 1st vaccine required by law in Illinois, Hepatitis B, the day I was born in the hospital. I went home 3 days later and everything seemed to be fine. I was growing little by little. I was happy. My Mommy and Daddy loved me.

On November 29, 2012 I had my 1st set of vaccinations at my well-baby doctor’s appointment. They injected me with poisons. My Mother didn’t know any better. She trusted the doctor and what she was told, that the vaccines they were giving me were safe. My Mommy made the wrong decision. Little did she know, they poisoned me. I wasn’t able to talk. I didn’t want to be injected by a pointy needle, but my Mommy let them do it anyway.

A day and a half later on December 1, 2012, Jesus came and got me. He wanted me to be My Mommy’s Angel.

I often see my Mommy crying. I know every day she wakes up in pain. She cries herself to sleep at night. She sometimes cannot bare to even go outside. She has trouble in the nighttime, maybe because I’m not there. I know she longs to hold me, but she can’t anymore. I know she still knows how it felt with her head next to mine as she was holding me.

I remember how happy I made her and Daddy. They loved me. They did everything they thought they should do for me, but when my Mommy took me to the doctor to get shots, it wasn’t what she should have done because I am not with her and Daddy anymore. I went to sleep and never woke up. My Mommy had to find me lifeless that morning and it broke my Mommy’s heart. She will never be the same. She still cries daily more than a year later because she just won’t get over losing me. She lives with guilt and what if’s. She was supposed to have me with her, but I am not.

The doctors don’t feel the pain that I went through when they stuck me with the shots. The pharmaceutical companies don’t feel any pain and they don’t care that my Mommy lost me. The government doesn’t feel any of the pain that my Mommy feels everyday because I wasn’t their child.

Here is a picture of me the day at the doctor’s office before they gave me those shots. Didn’t I look so HAPPY AND HEALTHY? I was.

And here is a picture of me the next day after the shots. I was so out of it. My eyes just don’t look right. It looked as if I was drugged and poisoned and I was. I slept mostly and hardly ate and then the very next day, had to leave My Mommy!

MY MOMMY MISSES ME.”

Vaccination injuries are real. It is not normal to have heavy metals and toxins into a newborn or anybody else for that matter. ALL VACCINES ARE DESIGNED TO KILL!!! MY SON WAS KILLED BY VACCINES. DO NOT VACCINATE. You CANNOT take it back after it is done. You CAN CHOOSE not to do it. Regardless of what doctors or hospitals say,WE CAN CHOOSE NOT TO VACCINATE. We, as parents, are forced by the GOVERNMENT, DOCTORS, HOSPITALS and PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES to give “OUR” BABIES LETHAL (DEADLY) INJECTIONS that are making them rich. Most DO NOT vaccinate their own children because of the risks involved, but WE let them force them on “OUR” children.

*** My thoughts: I asked Suzanne to share her story for us, and she told it from the perspective of her son and his feelings. As you reflect on this, I pray that Thomas’s face is imprinted upon your brain, your very soul and it gives this issue the humanity that it deserves. This story, and many more like it, along with my children’s vaccine damage is why I am so very vocal, to the point of being obnoxious about it. I will never stop. I commit to continue with all my mind, my heart and my soul until my voice is silenced in death. I believe that death is the result of the practice of vaccination so many more times than we’ve been led to believe. Sometimes it may be slow and gradual, other times it is swift and immediate. This is not just a personal parenting decision like what color to paint baby’s room…..or where to attend preschool…..or what bedtime to settle on. This child, and others like him, are the reason I won’t sugar-coat vaccination…. why I won’t call it “immunization”….. why I won’t “respect a parent’s right to choose” it. Sure, it IS your choice…. BUT….. nobody is going to meet ME and then in the after-life be able to ask me, “Why didn’t you tell me the truth? Why didn’t you MAKE me listen? Why didn’t you KEEP talking until I understood?”

What about YOU, now, what are YOU going to do? Nevermind me, nevermind the medical community, nevermind your critics…..what about YOU? Do it for Thomas, and the others like him that don’t HAVE a voice anymore.

** I cross posted this from my other blog due to the vast number of people looking for help from essential oils but not wanting to consider vaccination as a cause of many of the issues they describe. Look on http://www.nevermindthem.com/opinion/vaccinations.asp for more information on the practice of vaccination.

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Evercare Hospice will be hosting “AHeartforOils & Company” to present a Holiday Make & Take/Open House.

All items under $10

Come experience the exotic scents of therapeutic grade aromatherapy and learn about their benefits for your family and create for yourself some personal care and home care products or perhaps some last few stocking stuffers (for others OR yourself)…. light refreshments served too… while you are there, view the beautiful new facilities of Evercare Hospice and see how they benefit our community. Self serve free zytoscans for members, half-price for non-members ($10)

as per the statement of Eric Johnson, husband of Erica Johnson, both fellow Young Living members and he is also the founder of Diffuse Life Pendants, which Carla Hartley has affectionately dubbed “Pot Necklaces”. I have one on right now, and I LOVE mine. Here is a snapshot of two of my favorites:

Oprah says, “Everybody’s got a story!” True story! Everybody’s got issues too. If you don’t deal with life’s issues, you will wind up being one of the “walking wounded” – someone who has been damaged or defeated psychologically or emotionally by their experiences in life. If you harbor the emotions you will also wind up physically ill, maybe even die prematurely.

What is it that makes the difference between someone who rises ABOVE their circumstances and someone who is beaten down by them? Gavin DeBecker, author of several best-seller books, and three-time presidential appointee and the nation’s best-known expert on the prediction and management of violence. writes about this issue in The Gift of Fear. He shares how meeting with a group of recovering addicts graduating from a social program within one prison he was asked to discuss with them his own experience of growing up. He shared, “Before I was thirteen, I saw a man shot, I saw another beaten and kicked to unconsciousness, I saw a friend struck near lethally in the face and head with a steel rod, I saw my mother become a heroin addict, I saw my sister beaten, and I was myself a veteran of beatings that had been going on for more than half my life.” They wanted to know what made the difference between him being on the OUTSIDE of the prison, and them being on the INSIDE. He credits his 5th grade teacher with having invested in him and making him feel worthwhile…giving him the connection to self-worth.

I would also add that it had to be more something WITHIN him. He had to embrace an attitude of forgiveness. He had to work through the emotions of what had happened to him.

Following is the testimony of a very dear friend of mine, after she participated in an Emotional Release session as taught by CARE, facilitated by our dear friend, Heather Brock.

“I have never liked lavender, but have tried to since it seems to be a favorite of midwives. When I got to Carla Hartley’s house last Wednesday, (for an oils training workshop) she was so lovely to diffuse a generous amount in my room. I couldn’t breathe! My chest felt so heavy. 2 days later, I learned that it is associated with abandonment issues. Explains a lot.

God used the Emotional Release class that Friday to go deep down into these emotional wounds and bring about great healing. And now I don’t hate lavender anymore!”

(* Note: For more information on which oils are associated with which emotions, see: Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils, by Carolyn Mein. Your appreciation of pure therapeutic grade essential oils will change depending on the emotional issues you are dealing with……or NOT dealing with! If you ever do NOT LIKE an oil, it’s probably an emotional issue.)

“I am writing this and making it public because even today, we talk about babies in the womb and abortion as philosophical concepts. But they are PEOPLE. They can’t tell you that. Aborted “fetuses” cannot speak to you and tell you what they feel and know. But I can. I remember. And I speak for the millions of babies whose lives are violently torn from them, in the name of choice.

I am Terri, and I am an abortion survivor.

I remember. Babies who are aborted feel pain. I don’t give a flying flip when the politicians have determined that a baby is “pain capable.” That is baloney. Babies know. Babies feel. No matter WHEN the abortion happens, they know. And they feel. I remember conception. I remember the abortion. I remember rejecting my mother long before I was ever born, and that memory happened before I knew my story. I didn’t know why I had rejected her, but now that is painfully obvious. I don’t hate her. I do forgive her. I am sad for the pain she must have been in to make such a decision. But know this. Her pain does not remotely compare to the pain my twin felt when she was aborted, nor to the pain I felt when she was violently ripped from me. Not even close. It came unbidden, out of nowhere. I drove home from work, and my sister’s song “Separate Ways” by Journey played. I reflected on her leaving as she was aborted. “If you must go, I wish you love. You’ll never walk alone. Take care, my love. Miss you love. Someday love will find you; break those chains that bind you. One night will remind you how we touched and went our separate ways.” But I’ve listened to this a hundred times before and thought of her. Tonight was very different. The full force of the memory of the abortion slammed me out of nowhere, with a furious intensity that even I had never experienced before. I remembered. I remembered her literally being sucked away from me. My reaching for her. She had shoved me, kicked me out of the way just before, and we were being ripped apart from each other, with a violence that no human should ever have to experience. We were tiny babies. But we knew each other. And we loved each other. It’s like she was part of me. And the “boo” (I used to cry out as a baby in fear of “the boo.” Now I know what it was.) the boo came and sucked her away. But she didn’t die immediately. She felt it. She KNEW what was happening to her. And I did too. And I couldn’t stop it. I couldn’t save her. I screamed. She screamed. Terror. Anguish. Pain. And then quiet. She was gone. And I was alone. Where once had been two was only me. And God quieted me with His love. I had to be invisible. So she wouldn’t know I was still there yet.

Someone commented recently, “So the silent scream is real?” Yes. It is. I felt it tonight as the memory came back with the most violent intensity I have ever experienced, and every cell of my body screamed NOOOOOOOOO! As I drove, I screamed with everything within me – Noooo, noooo, nooooo, nooooo! Tears streamed down my face clouding my view as sobs racked my body. I am not sure how I stayed on the road.

The memories of losing my sister are so vivid and real. It is the deepest, most gut-level grief I have ever experienced.”

“Those of us who write anything: poems, songs, stories, know that sometimes God wants us to write something specific. No matter what time it is. I got this at around 3 am. It is a poem from my mother’s twin sister to my mother. For those of you who don’t know, my mother found out at the beginning of this year that her mother tried to abort her, and succeeded in aborting her twin sister. This poem is from God and my aunt but it was written down by me. There is no way I could have written this on my own.”

My Love, My Life, My Sister

I could have changed the world. I know I would have changed yours.

I could have been a singer, a dancer, an actress.

I could have simply been a mother, a sister, a wife.

I could have been anything I wanted; but I never got the chance.

My life was taken from me before I had the chance to live it; but you survived.

I knew I was going to die, even though I didn’t want to.

I knew I had a choice to save you or to take you with me.

I pushed you out of the way, to safety, to God’s arms.

Our mother took my life; I couldn’t let her take yours.

One of us had to live to fulfill all God has planned.

My choice was made for me, you can still make yours.

Go my love, my sister, my twin; go and live the life you choose to live.

The life I never got.

I will always be with you, watching you, happy.

We will meet again, someday, and when that day comes, nothing and no one can separate us.

(*My comments: You may have trouble believing someone could remember being in the womb, but there is quite a bit of evidence available to collaborate what Terri speaks about. I’ve personally talked to several people who have memories pre-birth. That is a subject for another day, or perhaps a rabbit trail for you.)

You may be familiar with the name Gianna Jessen, she herself an abortion survivor, speaker and singer who has shares her story publicly. The recent movie, October Baby depicts the story of a young woman when she discovers she was adopted along with the additional information that her birth mother had tried to abort her. It delves into the issue of post-abortion syndrome, touches on Gianna’s story and features some of her music.

Terri with Gianna at the Red Carpet Screening of October Baby in her home state, AL.

More from Terri: “The more I learn about post-abortion syndrome, the more I realize that my mother’s behavior through the years is NOT a mystery. Nobody has ever been able to really figure her out, and I’ve heard everything from schizophrenia to bi-polar, but the closest I could ever figure out was borderline personality disorder. But now I finally know that her behavior is actually quite predictable and expected for someone who has had abortions. Her responses to me, whom she thought she had aborted, are very normal for someone in her place. It makes it so much easier for me to forgive her and have compassion on her. It makes sense now. I cannot imagine what she has been through. And I realize that there are millions of women going through this on some level. I know it affects different people differently. The myth is that an abortion “takes care” of the problem. The reality is that the problems just get started with abortion. First of all, there are the possible PHYSICAL dangers, which are all too common: perforated uterus, nicked bowel, hemorrhage, etc. If she ends up going to the emergency room later, it isn’t connected in the medical records to the abortion. I have friends who are ER nurses in various parts of the country who see the fallout of botched abortions all the time. Then, of course, there is the devastation to the baby, usually death.

But now I have learned that there are over 44 THOUSAND abortion survivors in the US alone! For us, there are emotional consequences that have haunted us all our lives, even though many of us had no clue about the origin of these things.

On some level, there are memories and long-lasting psychological ramifications. And finally, there are the devastating psychological ramifications for the mother. She may not acknowledge them, or they may not surface for some time. She may formulate an alternate reality in order to cope. But nobody tells her before the “procedure” of the risks of long-term psychological damage, including depression, or personality disorders. I know I had no clue.

How MANY of the women walking around us every day are haunted by the memory of abortion, and how many men? We have become a generation of the walking wounded.

I am reminded of this passage in Isaiah 42:22 – 23 (from the chapter that the Lord had me read every single day for more than a month years ago – now I know why) –

22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.” (Lit. “restore” in Hebrew) 23 Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?

** My comments: If this story hits home for you, you CAN overcome, there IS HOPE. Terri embraced forgiveness early in her journey and you can do it now. The oils are incredibly helpful in moving through with painful emotions, past and present.

Terri, you know I love you. Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for speaking out. Blessings to you.

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS.”

The story as told to me by one of the authors, Dave Braun, of Oola, Find Balance in an Unbalanced World. (I was also given permission to share it here.)

Mary Young read the book and loved it. She read it aloud to Gary as they were driving on a trip a few short weeks before Convention 2013. He also LOVED it. When they returned home, Gary contacted the pair and told them he wanted to create an oil blend for “Oola” and have them come to Convention 2013 Believe and teach about it. The interesting little-known “tid-bit” is that another oil company had JUST approached the pair with nearly the same offer, creating a blend to go with “Oola”. Both companies created their blends and presented them to Dave and Troy. They agreed, hands-down, that Young Living’s product was far superior to the other, and plans were made to attend the convention and create the exclusive to Young Living distributors, combo-pack. The rest, as they say, is now history.

It includes: the book, an ebook, a DVD, a membership to Oola life, and an enrollment to Oola life, and 2 essential oil blends, Balance & Grow.

Focused: Episode 1 Troy and Dave from Oola…here is a short clip which shows both the authors giving an interview. Where are you, where do you want to go, how are you going to get there?

This was my very first new product to sample/experience at Convention 2013 and I absolutely LOVED the oils. I also attended the workshop and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you get a chance to hear them, go! It will totally be worth your while!

Look for my more extensive review of the book, Oola, Find Balance in an unbalanced world in the upcoming edition of BirthNBabies magazine, due out soon.

For information on how to become a distributor: and you may also purchase the book directly from their website or from Amazon in the Kindle edition.

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS.”

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I’m often asked about the validity of the use of essential oils in health and wellness. This post shows some of the places where the rest of the community are talking about it, and some of my favorite resources are listed near the bottom of the post.

I’m also told frequently that essential oils aren’t proven either safe or effective. There are many studies accessible on pubmed. You can either search by individual oil or for essential oils in general. AIRASE, the Association for the International Research of Aromatic Science and Education is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to promoting scientific validation of essential oils. They exist to actively promote, sponsor and support research on the healing properties of essential oils. Another part of their mission is to inform the public concerning therapeutic uses and healing properties of essential oils. Some information they provide is free to the public, while more information is available with membership, which exists to further supports its mission.

The following is a collection of some of the media clips of people and places using aromatherapy and Young Living essential oils in particular.

Here an NBC Story: Young Living Essential Oils in Another Major US Hospital – A young girl, her mother and her doctor talk about using Young Living oils with other modalities. “Alternative medicine is becoming mainstream, as more and more studies back up their use.”

Using Essential oils with cancer treatment – A cancer patient and her doctor talk about the use of oils.

Urban Zen Foundation was born when the fashion designer, Donna Karan, listened to the Dalai Lama speaking about preserving the historical and cultural richness of his homeland. It sparked a fire within her that compelled her to share both the wisdom and compassion she had felt listening to him. She became determined to raise awareness and inspire change. When her late husband, Stephen Weiss, became ill with lung cancer they needed a way to deal with the illness in a complementary way that supported not only dealing with the disease itself, but him as an individual and themselves as a family. You can hear her describe the beginning here. When considering well-being, from a holistic perspective, she believes the patient must be treated, not just the disease. Empowering children with education, in academics, self-esteem and compassion is also a large focus. She created Urban Zen Center for people and organizations of like-mind to collaborate together to create change.

Urban Zen is based on the following three initiatives:

#1 preservation of culture

#2 wellbeing

#3 patient advocacy (as well as empowering children)

The Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program is the application of the well-being initiative of Urban Zen. This program integrates some of what we consider the eastern healing techniques such as yoga and acupuncture, with more holistic focus on nutrition and the use of aromatherapy, and the medicinal use of essential oils while combining that with western medicine to focus on the whole patient, rather than just his disease. The UZIT program is focused on integrating multiple therapies into patient care. The objective of the program is to train and provide integrative therapists in hospitals, outpatient care centers, support groups and private practices which will transform healthcare to include these healing techniques together WITH western medicine.

It was launched in 2009 and is a 500 hour advanced program focused on integrating multiple therapies together and instead of treating a patient’s DISEASE…. they treat the actual PATIENT. Where western medicine holds to focusing on treating disease, it does not address the emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and those who care for them, both his loved ones and his nurses.

April 15th, 2009, Beth Israel Medical Center….the ribbon cutting ceremony when the program was launched.

Urban Zen Integrative Therapists use multiple modalities (including yoga, Reiki, therapeutic use of essential oils (using Young Living essential oils), nutrition and contemplative care) to address the symptoms of PANIC—Pain, Anxiety, Nausea, Insomnia, Constipation and Exhaustion—that accompany disease or injury. Following are some of the key people involved in Urban Zen and their experiences.

Donna says, “Urban Zen stands for finding the calm in chaos.” Here she is talking about her experience and why she wanted aromatherapy as a part of Urban Zen.

Here, Woodson Merrel, MD, the Director of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, describes how Aromatherapy, particularly using Young Living essential oils, is part of Beth Israel.

Dr. Jaime Naughright, Director of Urban Zen Integrative Therapists, talks about Young Living’s support and influence at Beth Israel.

Shana is Urban Zen’s Yoga Coordinator, and she describes the changes made at Beth Israel and how Young Living has helped. One thing she states, “The unintended consequence is that it makes everybody a little more calm….and it CLEANS the environment.”

Coleen Saidman Yee, a yogi and co-director of Urban Zen Integrative Therapists, talks about her use of the oils. “I am COMPLETELY addicted to the oils!”

Rodney Yee, co-director also talks about use of Young Living essential oils.

Aurora Ocampo, a clinical nurse specialist for integrative medicine, talks about the alternative techniques she uses, including aromatherapy, yoga and Reiki to enhance patient care. She quotes a patient saying, “this is putting caring back into health care.”

Jill Pettijohn, a raw food chef and instructor for the Urban Zen Foundation, describes how she uses essential oils. She says, “I always smile when I think of the oils and the way they make me feel.”

Sonja Nutall, Creative Director of Urban Zen, talks about her own experience with Young Living Essential oils. “They’ve changed my life, I just want to smell their smells constantly.”

3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may PROSPER and be in GOOD HEALTH, just as your SOUL PROSPERS.”

I am a Christian, Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Young Living Independent Distributor, Raindrop Technique Specialist, Homeschool mom, Traditional Midwife, Monitrice, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Counselor, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist always striving to "do better" and to live in a way that pleases my Maker and helps other people along the way.